Occupation: Writer Birth: December 26, 1891 Death: June 7, 1980
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of l….
Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths..
Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am..
One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an ….
Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it..
I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this l….
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is….
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane….
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer..
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise..
Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?.
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some ….
If one believes, then miracles occur..
I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face..
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane..
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse..
Cluster together like stars!.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring..
Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created o….
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is..
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble i….